Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you?Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

My mother had a maid called Barbary;She was in love, and he she loved proved mad,...And did forsake her. She had a song of "Willow,"An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune,And she died singing it. That song tonightWill not go from my mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,And call upon my soul within the house;...Write loyal cantons of contemned love,And sing them loud even in the dead of night;Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,And make the babbling gossip of the airCry out "Olivia!" O, you should not restBetween the elements of air and earthBut you should pity me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling... one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The sounds are: the brisk swish of broom on tatami matting, the raucous cawing of hooded crows in a nearby willow grove; clickety-... clackety rattle of chattering housewives, a sound like briskly plied knitting needles, for Japanese is a language full of Ts and Ks; and, in the mornings, the crowing of a cock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »